{"id":249464,"date":"2024-04-24T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/cities-scramble-to-find-trees-that-will-survive-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T08:56:40","slug":"cities-scramble-to-find-trees-that-will-survive-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/cities-scramble-to-find-trees-that-will-survive-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities scramble to find trees that will survive climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-default-font-family\">Last fall, I invited a stranger into my yard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Manzanita, with its peeling red bark and delicate pitcher-shaped blossoms, thrives on the dry, rocky ridges of Northern California. The small, evergreen tree or shrub is famously drought-tolerant, with some varieties capable of enduring more than 200 days between waterings. And yet here I was, gently lowering an 18-inch variety named for botanist Howard McMinn into the damp soil of Tacoma, a city in Washington known for its towering Douglas firs, bigleaf maples, and an average of 152 rainy days per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">It\u2019s not that I\u2019m a thoughtless gardener. Some studies suggest that the Seattle area\u2019s climate will more closely resemble Northern California\u2019s by 2050, so I\u2019m planting that region\u2019s trees, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Climate change is scrambling the seasons, wreaking havoc on trees. Some temperate and <a...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/agriculture\/climate-change-tree-urban-city-arborists-heat-drought-native-species\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, I invited a stranger into my yard.\u00a0 Manzanita, with its peeling red bark and delicate pitcher-shaped blossoms, thrives on the dry, rocky ridges of Northern California. The small, evergreen tree or shrub is famously drought-tolerant, with some varieties capable of enduring more than 200 days between waterings. 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